Jalen Brunson scored 31 points, Karl-Anthony Towns had 26 points and 13 rebounds and the New York Knicks rode a huge second quarter to a 105-95 victory over the Boston Celtics on Friday night and a 2-0 start to the season.

New York Knicks star Jalen Brunson had a funny response to a reporter's question about super fan Spike Lee on Wednesday.

New York spent all of Wednesday hounding Cleveland’s ballhandlers in the backcourt. The Knicks alternated who was at the point of attack. They threw different looks. The Knicks wanted to make their opponent work for what it wanted, to be on the front foot, as opposed to reacting.

Wednesday marked 13 years, eight months, three weeks and two days since a New York team won a championship in one of the traditional four major sports leagues.

In the first start of his 2025-26 season with the Cleveland Cavaliers, Jaylon Tyson had the responsibility of guarding Jalen Brunson.

The Knicks haven’t entered a season with this kind of excitement since the days of the Yankees Core Four dynasty.

Earlier in October, ESPN's Shams Charania reported that Giannis Antetoukounmpo's camp settled on the New York Knicks as his preference should he decide to force a trade out of Milwaukee, and the two teams even held preliminary trade talks in August,